Switched back to Fusion. Impossible to remove the icons from Parallels

This is a repost. I was probably not word the subject well enough on the first post

I use the Fusion user for 4 years now, but in order to satisfy my curiosity I looked into Parallels 8 to see what differences there are between it and the Fusion.

Because I assumed two virtual machine programs work would present a problem I uninstalled Fusion and installed Parallels 8. Uninstallation of the merger was without incident, as the installation of Parallels 8. After using it for about two weeks, I decided that I would stay with Fusion since Parallels did give any real advantage in a world of Boot Camp.

I followed the instructions for the elimination of Parallels in the side Mac and the tools of the side Windows. I then reinstalled merger. Everything was back to where it was before my tests, or so it seemed.

I discovered some latency in the boot process, as well as garbage on the screen (at the start of Windows) that wasn't there before that I did my unfortunate test. I then dug deeper into the side Mac and searched all Parallels and found a lot of stray files that uninstalling seemed to have ignored or missed, ranging from the plists at hidden in the library folders. I carefully deleted only files that have been clearly identified as 'Parallels' files and folders. I tested the program VMWare Fusion and everything seems to work fine, but I've always had this nagging suspicion that everything was not as "clean" as it was before the test.

Yesterday, I finally got fed up with the slow start of Windows 7 Pro and decided to look in the Windows registry. Boy, was I in for a surprise. There were more than 600 entries from channels that Parallels creeps in and through the Windows registry. Fortunately I am versed in regedit and quickly cleaned up the filth of Parallels. My MBP seems to boot properly.

I'm having a small problem on Mac side that maybe you can help solve. In my taskbar, there is the BootCamp/VMware arrow. If I click on it, a drop down menu appears with the Parallels icon (see image)Screen Shot 2013-02-14 at 7.01.42 PM.png

I can't, for the life of find me the file or the folder associated with this 'Parallels Desktop (Mac)"listed program. Behind the drop down menu is a list of all files that have the exact string "Parallels Desktop (Mac)" included in it. And now my question.

What can I delete or change to rid myself of this icon and the list?

For the record, I'm on a MBP (late 2008) 8 GB of RAM and using Boot Camp on an NTFS partition

Click the Applications Menu Settings button under the drop-down list button in your screenshot.

Click Clear Recent Applications.

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